Sentence examples for tranquil block from inspiring English sources

While some neighbors are looking forward to paying $1,600 each year to hone their muscles closer to home, others mourn the loss of their theater and worry that an influx of gymgoers will compromise their tranquil block.

Cars that formerly barreled off the bridge onto Delancey Street and headed north on Clinton were diverted, which Mr. Rivera said harmed longtime businesses, but also created a calm, tranquil block, with easy access from Houston Street.

In the same price range, but in far superior condition, a five-bedroom town house at 116 East 70th Street, a tranquil block distinguished by its exquisite architecture and celebrity residents, sold for $22,398,750 to Susan Weber Soros, the former wife of the billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Today, Mège and Bozorg Grayeli (she took his name after they married) live together on a tranquil block of land in the small village of Arc-sur-Tille Arc-sur-Tille Arc-sur-Tillethe interior of which has the restrained order of the beginning of a Michaelargeeke filmodern

On a tranquil back street one block from another estuary, Casa Roxana is a small compound of spacious white bungalows.

Her mother, Maria, a 57-year-old home-care worker who also looked after Rosanna's son, was found Sunday evening, her body wrapped in garbage bags in the back seat of her 1996 Hyundai on a tranquil street about 20 blocks from her house in Jamaica, Queens.

Doubles from $120 B&B, +51 1 446 5147, quintamiraflores.com Down a tranquil residential street a few blocks from Barranco's many bars, restaurants and galleries, this Tudor-style mansion is the former home of one of Peru's most famous artists, Victor Delfin and run by his daughter Lilian.

The debate over how best to deploy police officers has raged for decades, with representatives of more tranquil corners of the city successfully blocking repeated attempts to shift greater resources away from their neighborhoods to the most violent districts.

Instead, they can be found in places like Flushing, Queens, on a block that might be described as tranquil if it weren't for the youngsters of Public School 32 squealing while they play outdoors.

Several people pointed out that in New York City, the difference between a treacherous and a tranquil neighborhood can be a matter of a block or two, and that Sunday's shooting of three people occurred on Lenox Road, one block south of the neighborhood's traditional southern boundary.

"The atmosphere is tranquil," Ms. Coore said, "and you have an opportunity to block out everything else that's happening.